WHat up boys and girls. Time to write some shit down since I aint been keeping my life updated with all the shit thats been going on.
As many of you know I moved to Florida about a month ago almost and It's totally different than Puerto Rico. The atmosphere is really nice and friendly, and people seem pretty open which is cool. Its really a big adjustment for me with the overall vibe of the states and also i gotta speak english instead of my normal Spanglish .
Unfortunately I decided to leave my old car in Puerto Rico when i moved because the cost of shipping it down is almost half the cost of the car itself. I of course removed my big woofers and amp's and brought those with me . So the big issue lately for me has been playing enough and saving money for a new car. Which at first I wanted a Toyota Celica, but i was talked into getting a BMW by my buddy chris (milkman) and he helped me out with that so im grateful. I actually went yesterday to drop a 1 grand down payment for the guy to hold the car for me, and then I'm going back next week to pay the rest of it off in cash, since I did not want to finance a car and be paying monthly payments over the course of a few years depending on what car i got, with a huge intrest rate (not to mention if you finance a car, your pretty much obligated to get full coverage on it, so that is like twice the rate on insurance payments).
As for poker. I have played probably around 60k hands (i have two computers so its hard for me to look at all my PT stats together) and have ran at about 3bb/100 which is pretty damn solid considering i had a downswing where i dropped 2 grand in 2 days. On this comp my PT says i made around 4.4k and on other comp i've probably made another 1k. So I'm pleased with that result for this month . (not including the bonus im clearing)
But the best part ofcourse is that I am getting lessons from the one and only D_ZOO!:D he has helped me actually raise my stats to about 17/12/2.2(FULLRING) and my winrate (over a very small sample) has been pretty fuckin sexy. I hope to get more lessons in the future and get more adapted to playing this looser style. I also want to thank TalentedTom because he has also given me some food for thought and hooked me up with the D_Zizzle
As for the future. Well now that I have my sexy car to complement my baller status, and a solid bankroll for grinding and living off. I am probably going to try to make the leap to 400NL as soon as money permits as long as my winrate holds solid. I will have to make withdrawls monthly obviously, for my expenses which is no problem and also to pay for my trips this summer. I'm planning on going to new york with my cousin to chill for a week or something, then flying with him to Puerto Rico and live with him and my other cousin for 3 weeks or so (We were raised together and are brothers). THEN! they are coming to florida with me to stay for a few weeks before i fly off to vegas with the LP crew for the main event of the WSOP!
I'm going to be staying in rainkhan in his suite with milkman/rush/few others, and we are going to of course party and just have an INSANE time! I mean... just try to not be jealous of me -_-; can't can you mWHAHA? I only wish everyone from LP could come with us, but it's definitely gonna be a sick time and we're gonna have a Real World type thing going on! LOL SO SICK FUN, can't wait!
Umm some other things that I should mention is, Me rainkhan milkman and Sixpepers spent about 10 hours (ATLEAST!) beating the SPECIAL FORCES: Hell TWEAKED UMS on Broodwar and i'd like to celebrate the fact that we finnally beat it two nights ago which in itself was a trippy time. It consisted of Lots of yelling, cursing each other out and a general fun time we shared beating this shit. Just to give you a hint of the work we put into this game, i had to get up early next day to go car shopping, Sixpepers had a party goin on at his place and he was drunk as shit, milkman is another drunktard, and rainkhan had set that time to go to the gym. But we all unanimously put everything aside and said FUCK IT WE GOTTA FUCK SOME NIGGA'S UP!.
So anyway I'll finish up by saying, shoutout to all my friends in PR that read this, also my niggas from vent: Alex, clay, Chris, Khan, Derrek, cosmo and all you nigga's i'm forgetting! As chris would say.... "LP NIGGA! LP!"
So I know I said I would be updating as soon as I played some serious sessions, well turns out I only played 600 hands last week and it wasn't until the weekend that i put in some serious hands. I think I played around 12k hands this weekend which was pretty sick, I am having a shitty run of cards still not getting much action and getting a ton of setups. I am however up about 3 buyins so I'm pretty proud of that, considering i had two 1.4k swings which was discouraging since I am still new to 200NL and getting used to the game but I definitely have an edge on the competition here. There are a suprising number of fish to be taken advantage of, and the regulars are not exactly that great so I have a feeling I'll be able to crush it pretty soon =).
Yesterday, I finally got PokerTracker since Milkman pressured me into it. Needless to say, IT IS THE SHIT :D. I saw my stats though and i find i am too tight, part of it I think is because of the aggresiveness of the stakes so I think I tightened up to counter act being pushed around without realizing it. But alas, dont worry! I am going to really think my game through and brainstorm with some other players and see how I can loosen up and see if I can find some leaks.
Another sexy thing about PT is that i got to see my winrate for the past month on 200NL. I have played 59k hands and have a winrate of 1.35bb/100 which is equivilant to being up $3141. Very happy about that considering how I've been running and the fact that I need to adjust my game some.
:HG: watch out 200NL!
Last week me, my roommate and my neighboor have been playing Xmen:legends and when i got back this week after spending the weekend at my parents house, I get home and they are on the second to last mission, and well we stayed up 'til one playing it. And ofcourse cried when we finished it . Was a good game... oh my god, I'm getting teary eye'd again, sorry about that I promised I wouldn't while I wrote this. So yeah, we have to find another game to consume our lives while my buddies ditch classes to play .
Hi boys and girls. My name is Anthony Gonzalez and i live in Puerto Rico, I'm 19 years old at the moment and trying to make my way as a professional poker player for now. My goal for the end of this year, if everything goes as planned is $100,000 between bankroll and total cashouts (not including last years cashouts). At the start of this blog I want to say a little about where I am in poker as of this instant and some past on myself. Right now I have a bankroll of about $8,300 and am a 200NL player (going through a little downswing at the momentm but all is good). I have been playing poker online since December 31, 2005. And about a year and a half before that playing with friends, and even a little live experiance. I started with a bankroll of $50 online and built that up to where i am now, with about $3,500 - $4,000 in cashouts to date.
Currently I have taken a semester off from college to break and figure out where i want my life to lead me, as well as try to independentize(whoa i think i just made that word up myself from my parents, not because they are forcing it upon me ;they aren't infact they would like nothing more for me than to stay at home with them until i finish college, but I hate the thought of having to leech off my parents now that I am an adult. Though lets face it, I bet my mom will always try and buy me new shampoo for the next time I visit her, for me to take home... crazy mothers -_-; So yeah, since they are going to be moving to florida in a month or two and I am going to be staying in Puerto Rico virutally by myself living in my former weekday-only apartment which I used as a homebase for when i was going to college. I feel it was the best thing for now if I just figured somethings out like what I wanted to study and where. Also just enjoy life, enjoy the oportunities poker has givin' me, take advantage of being young!
I'm not going to clutter my blog with useless bullshit like I know a lot of people are, though I am going to keep my blog pretty up to date in the near future once I start finding out what exactly I want to be talking about. I have been planning to start a blog for some time now, but I didn't really know how to manage one or find a nice interface that I could figure out how to use easily. However, Liquidpoker has been so generous to offer me my very own blog to manage and I just registered this blog not two seconds after I read about it.
On my blog I'm probably going to stick to mostly to poker, but since i also have an actual life, I am probably going to post my fare share of stories, or address a topic thats been on my mind. Who knows what I might write in this thing! So in the near future once i start posting, I plan to keep it up regularly. I also think that I'm going to keep a record of some hands that I feel I would like to elaborate my thought process on them to further get into the habbit of thinking more clearly, so other people can also critique them, hopefully admire them too.
Thats all for now, this is actually more than I expected to be writing up at three in the morning
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. So the big issue lately for me has been playing enough and saving money for a new car. Which at first I wanted a Toyota Celica, but i was talked into getting a BMW by my buddy chris (milkman) and he helped me out with that so im grateful. I actually went yesterday to drop a 1 grand down payment for the guy to hold the car for me, and then I'm going back next week to pay the rest of it off in cash, since I did not want to finance a car and be paying monthly payments over the course of a few years depending on what car i got, with a huge intrest rate (not to mention if you finance a car, your pretty much obligated to get full coverage on it, so that is like twice the rate on insurance payments). 
Last week me, my roommate and my neighboor have been playing Xmen:legends and when i got back this week after spending the weekend at my parents house, I get home and they are on the second to last mission, and well we stayed up 'til one playing it. And ofcourse cried when we finished it 
. Was a good game... oh my god, I'm getting teary eye'd again, sorry about that I promised I wouldn't while I wrote this. So yeah, we have to find another game to consume our lives while my buddies ditch classes to play 
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